July 22, 1922 
cral plan is to keep the land as level as possible in 
cultivating. The corn is never hilled up, but when 
hoeing, instead of pulling the soil up in the hill, the 
ground around it is held down smooth and left as 
level as possible. At the time of the last cultivation, 
which usually comes about the middle of August, the 
grass and clover seed is scattered evenly over the 
ground all through the corn. This may be done by 
hand, or with a broadcast seeder. In a small patch 
it is probably better to put the seed on by hand. The 
Point is to get it as evenly distributed as possible. 
Then after the seed has been put. on, a light cultiva¬ 
tor with sharp and narrow teeth is run up and down 
each row, thoroughly working the grass seed into 
the ground. A small harrow is sometimes used for 
this purpose. Tn some eases we have used a board 
or piece of joist dragging behind the cultivator to 
smooth down the ground. This hoard or plank is 
fastened to the rear of the cultivator by wires, and 
scrapes or dangles along behind the cultivator, scrap¬ 
ing down the soil. It generally pays to go through 
with an iron rake after this cultivating and scratch 
over the space between the hills, as that makes a 
more even seeding. The corn is cut close to the 
ground and taken out of the field as soon as possible. 
M bile the ground is frozen in the Spring a roller is 
used to mash down the cornstalks and level the 
ground. When handled carefully a very fair seeding 
can often he obtained in this way. It requires a wet 
season and plenty of moisture, however, and would 
not be very successful in a dry season. It is often 
worth trying in a small field, as the theory of it is 
very much the same as that of an ordinary cover 
crop. 
or a mile away, where no turkeys had ever been ask who shut up the young 
raispd. cr not for 20 years anyhow. A new start was dew was off? 
made: turkeys were brought from New York State, 
the birds being bought of two •different breeders. 
Thirty-seven birds were hatched, and though some 
were lost by other causes, none died from blackhead. 
The next year some new birds from the East were 
added to the flock. All the birds on the ranch were 
well matured and showed no signs of blackhead. 
From these 210 birds were hatched, of which, at the 
end of the season, only 72 remained: more than 100 
died of blackhead, the others from a combination of 
chicken pox and blackhead. 
In 1010 200 were hatched and given to hens to 
rear, the poults being penned for 10 days before be¬ 
ing allowed to run in the Alfalfa. They were about 
six weeks old before the disease appeared: then they 
all went hut 52. Every remedy they could think of 
was tried : different kinds of feed, an egg mash was 
fed for a month, buttermilk, sweet milk, laxatives; 
but the disease went right on. 
IPECAC TRIED,—It was toward the end of the 
season when Dr. Wegeforth’s attention was drawn 
to Dr. Theobald Smith's researches on the etiolosrv 
wild turkeys until the 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
A Roadside Stand That Pays 
J UST outside of the city of Rome, N. Y., alo 
of flic principal highways, the writer seeui 
picture of the roadside stand shown. Traffic i 
heavy along this macadam road, and little troi 
encountered in disposing of the crops raised < 
proved so valuable in human enteritis of amoebic 
origin. It was September: most of the damage had 
been done, but there were 52 birds left, out of the 
209 hatched. A routine was established on the 
ranch whereby any bird showing signs of blackhead 
was immediately given 10 drops of the liquid ex¬ 
tract of ipecac in the mouth three times a day for 
three days, then twice a day for three days, then 
once a day for the same period. To their surprise 
they found that instead of needing autopsies, the 
birds were recovering, aud could later he turned 
back into (he flock. Of the 52 young birds, 82 were 
attacked by the disease. Under the ipecac treatment 
29 recovered. Of live of the old birds contracting the 
disease two were lost, the disease having made too 
much progress to he stopped. It Avas determined 
then to experiment with the ipecac treatment. 
Moore and Chester and Robin had transmitted the 
disease by feeding the entrails of a diseased bird. 
The doctors procured 18 apparently healthy and 
nearly grown turkeys from a ranch some miles away 
aud divided them into three pens. To each pen was 
fed the ground caeca and liver of a turkey that had 
died that day of the blackhead. Each bird in Pen 
No. 1 was given 10 drops fluid extract of ipecac in 
the mouth once a day for three days. Those in Pen 
No. 2 were given three teaspoons of powdered ipecac 
mixed in each quart of mash, of which they were 
allowed to eat all they would. The third pen was 
fed no ipecac, but ordinary food. One bird in the 
first pen died on the fifth day from some obscure 
disease which the autopsy could not determine. All 
the birds in the second pen remained healthy. In 
the third pen four of the six birds died of blackhead ; 
the other two remained healthy. At the end of two 
months all the birds were turned loose and ran 
with the flock; there were no more losses among 
them. 
IPECAC AS PREVENTIVE.—As during the next 
season it was necessary for the doctors to he away 
lioni home most of the time, it was determined to 
use the ipecac as a preventive, giving a teaspoon of 
the powdered ipecac in enough mash for each unit 
of 20 birds, twice a week. Young and old alike par¬ 
took of it. Not a single case of blackhead appeared 
during the year, although they ran over the same 
ground that infected birds had used the previous 
year. 
COCCIDIOSIS.—There are other diseases which 
affect turkeys that might he mistaken for black¬ 
head, notably coecidiosis. The disease is caused 
by the multiplication of bacteria called coccidia. 
The remedy for this catechu, a teaspoon in three 
gallons of drinking water, allowing no other 
drink. 
CONCLUSIONS.—The writer wants to call atten¬ 
tion to the fact that disease has often proceeded so 
far before it was noticed that cure is impossible; 
prevention is far better, and if a teaspoon of pow¬ 
dered ipecac fed in the mash to each lot of 20 tur¬ 
key poults, twice a week, will keep off blackhead, 
it is better to use that than wait for the disease to 
appear. 
Turkey should be as common a food as chicken, 
and as cheap, and will be when turkey raisers know 
how to prevent the diseases which now make turkey 
raising a precarious business. The use of ipecac 
should be begun when the poults are two weeks old, 
and continued until they ar 
About dampness being fal 
would say that years ago wil 
in practically all the States 
H a \ i.Mi spent ou (riorums fourths in various 
ways, I want you to know how I spent this 
last one. With the wheat and rye in the shock, and 
a team that would otherwise have been idle, I 
thought to do a little plowing for wheat. With the 
three big brood mares on the riding plow, we cross 
the land and return almost continuously, as it is a 
cool day in Southern Michigan. 
Yes, it is hard plowing at this time. The ground 
is hard and very dry, as we have had no rain for 
many weeks, hut it lias been shown us that out at 
the Kansas Experiment Station in the year 1911. on 
ground plowed in July, the yield was over 88 bushels 
to the acre, while land plowed in August produced 
hut 27 bushels per acre, a difference of more than 
10 bushels for July plowing, so 1 wish you would 
tell the hoys to plow as early as possible after spend¬ 
ing the “Fourth.” y. w. iiowe. 
Berrien Co., Mich. 
ins first catch. This is nine-year-old Clark W. 
Couch, showing his “speckled beauty”—15 inches 
long, and caught in the Bcaverkill River. Many a 
man who reads this will remember his first trout. 
He may have held high office or accumulated a for- 
tune since then, hut no life thrill has quite compared 
with the joy of landing that first big fish. 
Celery, onions, head lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, 
squash and muskmelons were on display, and the 
salad crops were kept in a fresh state by means of a 
lawn sprinkler attached to a hose and set at the top 
of the stand. One of the many children of the pro¬ 
prietor plays the part of clerk when he is not weed¬ 
ing vegetables in the garden at the rear. A large 
portion of the muck crop raised here is marketed in 
this direct way at a cheaper cost to the consumer 
and at a much better price to the grower. And the 
consumer can he sure the products are fresh. There 
were eight of these stands within a mile of the city 
limits. T H t 
R. N.-Y.—Rood advice, but where do you get the 
weather which leaves the soil dry and hard at this 
season? With us June was one long succession of 
thunderstorms, and on the “Glorious Fourth” the 
entire farm was a sea of mud! 
Grafting Tomato on Potato 
I was once told that a tomato could be grafted on to 
a potato, and that both would grow and bear fruit, 
tomatoes from the top and potatoes underneath, all 
from one plant. T doubt this can be done; but. not 
being positive. I would like to know if it ever was tried 
anywhere, and if it was done, I would like to know 
how und where. F. K. 
New Windsor, N. Y. 
T IIE graft of a tomato stem on a potato vine is 
easily made by an expert grafter. The two 
[,au 0 ^i-vv j.no- plants belong to the same general family, and thus 
We have seen almost a readily unite. We have printed many pictures of 
irted in this way. It such plants, showing small potatoes at the roots and 
a fair-sized tomato growing on the top. It seems 
like a remarkable operation to those who are not 
familiar with grafting, but any expert will tell you 
that it. is easily done. As a rule, the potatoes on 
such a plant do not reach a large size. Otherwise 
they seem to be perfect. Some years ago, at a 
county fair, we saw a plant of this kind exhibited 
by a humbug who claimed that he had originated a 
new plant. He said that the seed from the tomato 
on the vine would produce similar plants: that is, 
with potatoes under ground and tomatoes above 
ground. He was kept, busy during the day taking 
in money for seeds which he sold at 25 cents apiece. 
There never was a greater humbug in all the long 
list of frauds, fox’, of course, the seed from a grafted 
tomato could not possibly produce a plant which 
would produce potatoes. In these days it would be 
a difficult thing for such a humbug to play his game 
at any ordinary county fair, but years ago. before it 
was possible to spread such information, a fraud of 
this sort would go far. 
An Attractive Road aide Stand. 
will not do as well in silage corn seeded in drills as 
ii will where the corn is planted in hills, because it 
will be hard to get the seed into the drill. The gen- 
